Fractions

1) During a basketball game, four players scored all the points for their team.
Joe scored half the points, Frank scored one-third of the points, Ken made one
three-point shot and Mike scored his only point with a free throw. How many
points did their team score? (1) 2004-WO1-2
2) In linear measure, 7 palms equal 1 cubit, and 28 digits equal 1 cubit. What is
the number of cubits in 8 palms, 6 digits? (2) 1999-WU2-2
3) A digital, 12-hour clock shows hours and minutes. During what fraction of the
day will the clock show the digit 1 in its display? (1) 1999-WU6-10

1
1
1
1
were given to Mary,
to Norm,
to Anna, and
to
3
5
6
4
Bjorn. The six left were given to Tony. How many coins were originally in the
bag? (1) 1999-WU7-7
4) From a bag of coins,

5 5
+
3!
4! (3) 1999-WU8-7
5) Simplify:
2
5
5!

6) For what value of n is the following equation true?

4+

= 1 (1) 1999-WU12-10

n
3+

1
7

1 1

7) Evaluate: 2 3 (1) 2000-WU1-9

1
8

8) In a mayors race of three candidates, Isaac received 4000 votes, Barbara

received 6000 votes and Rene received 1/3 of the votes. What was the total
number of votes in the election? (1) 2000-WU3-7

9) A yearbook sells advertisement that can cover one-half, one-fourth or oneeighth of a page. If a page measures 8.5 inches by 10 inches, what is the area
for the smallest ad? (1) 2000-WU4-3
10) A yearbook sells half-page ads for $100, quarter-page ads for $75, and
eighth-page ads for $50. Two pages yield the same income, although the number
of ads of each size are different for these pages. What is the income for one
of theses pages? (2) 2000-WU5-6
11) In a group of 3000 students, one-third of the students have been absent,
one-tenth of the students have been tardy, and one-fourth of the students are
freshman. What is the least possible number of students who have never been
absent, never been tardy, and are not freshman? (2) 2000-WU13-1
12) If 12a + 10b = 1020, what is the value of

a b
+ ? (3) 2000-WU13-9
5 6

13) A survey of 530 people found that 9 out of 10 chose their best friend as
their preferred traveling companion on family trips. How many of those
surveyed chose someone other than their best friend as their preferred
companion? (1) 2000-WO1-8
14) Express the value of the following expression as a common fraction. (1)
2000-WO4-2

1+

15) Simplify:

2
3+

4
5

1
2

1024
(1) 2000-WU9-9
0.125 212

16) If a/b = 12 and b/c = 20, what is the value of

a decimal to the nearest tenth. (3) 2000-WU7-9

a
? Express your answer as
b+c

17) What is the sum of the reciprocals of the first there positive even integers?
(1) 2003-WU2-3

18) Michael baked a chocolate cake. He left of the cake for his family and
took the rest to a friends house. Of the amount he left for his family, his
brother ate of it, and his sister ate

of it. Later that night, his dad ate

1
3

2
5

of what was then remaining. When Michael got home the next morning, how
much of the original cake was left? (1) 2003-WU7-4
19) What is the sum of the positive integers k such that
and less than

k
2
is greater than
27
3

8
? (1) 2003-WO4-2
9

20) Each row of passenger seats on an airplane is set up as shown, where ()

indicate windows, # represents a seat, and an aisle is between the second and
third seat in every row. There are 96 passenger seats that are not along the
aisle. How many passenger seats are along the aisle? (2) 2003-WU11-9

(##

###

21) How many integers have a reciprocal that is greater than

1
and less than
50.1

1
? (3) 2003-WU12-2

16 8
, , 4, 6, 9,. . . . What is the eighth
9 3
term of the sequence? (1) 2003-WU18-8
22) Consider the geometric sequence

23) Cameron and a friend order one pizza that is half-pepperoni and half-sausage.
Cameron eats

1
3

of the pepperoni and of the sausage. What fraction of the pizza

did Cameron eat? (1) 2002-WU4-9

3 6 9 2001
24) Calculate the product ...
. (3) 2002-WU10-2
6 9 12 2004
25) Suppose

WU16-3

x 3 y 2
z 5
x y z
= , = and
= . What is the value of + +
? (2) 2002y 4 z 3
w 8
w w w

26) Albert was often uncertain. On Wednesday, he left home and walked to his
sisters house, then walked way back home, turned and went the distance back to
his sisters house, turned again, and walked of the distance back home. He then
walked to the house that was farthest from his current position. If his sister lives
16 blocks form his house, what was the total number of blocks Albert walked on
Wednesday? (1) 1997-WU3-5
27) What common fraction has a reciprocal of 2.8? (1) 1997-WU5-3
28) A town has 8000 residents. Of them,

1
6

of the females married of the males.

If no person married more than once, how many of the towns residents are female?
(2) 1997-WU10-2
29) Solve for x: 0.5x = 10 . (2) 1997-WU11-5
30) Express 0.173 as a common fraction. (3) 1997-WU13-9
31) Simplify: 5 +

5
1
5+
5

. (1) 1997-WU19-2

1
1
1
1

32) What is the value of the expression 1 1 1 ... 1

when n = 12?

2
3
4
n + 1
(1) 2001-WU9-7
33) The points A through G are evenly spaced on
the number line. If A = 1/3 and G = 5/6 what

is the value at point C? (1) 2001-WU12-2

1
3

34) Calculate

5
6

1 2 3 4
49 50
... . (1) 2001-WO3-3
4 5 6 7
52 53

35) One-fourth of Madison High Schools students are seniors, one-third are juniors,
and the other 300 students are sophomores. Of the seniors, two-fifths are boys. How
many senior girls are students at Madison High School? (2) 2001-WO7-1

36) A small hose can fill a swimming pool in 16 hours. A large hose connected to a
different water supply fills the same pool in 12 hours. With the pool empty, the owner
turns on the smaller hose at 8:00 a.m. He turns on the larger hose at 10:00 a.m. Both
hoses are used from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. What fraction of the pool is full at 3:00
p.m.? (3) 2001-WO9-2
37) The sum of two positive integers is 11. What is the smallest possible sum of their
reciprocals? (1) 1996-WU3-8
38) What number can be added to both the numerator and denominator of
the resulting fraction will be equivalent to

3
so that
5

5
? (2) 1996-WU7-9
6

4
7
of his money for the movies, he then spent
of the remainder for
17
13
2
books. He used
of what was then left for tapes. He had $4 remaining for lunch.
3
How much money did Jack spend for books? (2) 2001-WO7-9
39) Jack spent

40) One-third of a social studies class gave their reports on Monday, one-fourth of
the class gave their reports on Tuesday, one-fifth of the class gave their reports on
Wednesday and 3 gave their reports on Thursday. If the remaining one-sixth of the
class gave their reports on Friday, how many students were in the class? (1) 1993WU5-1
41) On a number line, the coordinate of point x is 18 and the coordinate of y is 21.
What is the coordinate of z if the distance between x and z is one-third of the
distance between z and y? (1) 1993-WU7-6
42) On a number line, what common fraction corresponds to the point that is 2/3 of
the distance between 2/3 and 1? (2) 1993-WU13-1
43) Find an ordered pair (x, y) of even integers with x < y and

1993-WO10-9

1 1 1
+ = . (2)
x y 4

44) Find the largest integral value of x which solves: (1) 1995-WU1-2

1 x 5
< <
3 5 8
45) How many positive integers k will make the expression
integral value? (2) 1995-WU7-3

19 5
+ have an
k k

46) Carlos had a bag of gum drops. He gave 1/4 of them to Monica, then gave
half of what was left to Michael, then gave 1/6 of what was left to Ingrid. He
then had 20 gumdrops left. How many did he have originally? (3) 1995-WU7-10
47) Find the value of the common fraction x on the number line shown, given
that the dots are evenly spaced. (2) 1995-WU11-2

5
8

3
8

48) Debs 16-ounce mug is filled with cocoa powder and Harrys 16-ounce mug is
empty. Deb pours one-third of the cocoa powder from his mug into Harrys, then
fills Harrys mug to the top with milk. Harry stirs his mixture, then pours
enough back into Debs mug to fill it. Find the number of ounces of cocoa
powder now in Debs mug. (3) 1995-WU20-7

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Fractions Answer
Key

22) 243/8

45) 8

23) 7/24

46) 64

1) 24

24) 1/668

47) 7/24

2) 1 5/14

25) 65/48

48) 12 4/9 ozs

3) 1/2

26) 44

4) 120

27) 5/14

5) 5

28) 4,800

6) 3 1/7

29) 18

7) 4/3

30) 86/495

8) 15,000

31) 155/26

9) 10 5/8 in2

32) 1/13

10) $300

33) 1/2

11) 950

34) 1/23426

12) 17

35) 108

13) 53

36) 41/48

14) 29/19

37) 11/30

15) 1

38) 7

16) 11.4

39) $14

17) 11/12

40) 60

18) 1/8

41) 8

19) 105

42) 8/9

20) 64

43) (6, 12)

21) 64

44) 3